Historically part of Cheshire, it is 5 miles (8 km) south of Liverpool, close to the River Mersey on the eastern side of the Wirral Peninsula.

Some definitions of Bebington include adjoining areas such as Port Sunlight (an early planned factory town), New Ferry, Spital and Storeton.

[4] According to a 2015 study commissioned by Royal Mail from the Centre for Economic and Business Research, Bebington's postcode area, CH63, is the most desirable in England in which to live and work.

The study found that the area had "the ideal balance" of housing close to places of work, good schools and high employment.

[8] In 1801, Bebington was a small country hamlet with a population of only 273, situated on the main road connecting Chester and Birkenhead, and then via ferry to Liverpool.

[10] There is one main tier of local government covering Bebington, at metropolitan borough level: Wirral Council.

In 1866, the legal definition of 'parish' was changed to be the areas used for administering the poor laws, and so each township became a separate civil parish.

[19] The urban district was renamed Bebington in 1933, when its territory was also significantly enlarged to take in the neighbouring parishes of Storeton, Poulton cum Spital, Brimstage, Thornton Hough, Raby, and Eastham.

[21][22] A new Town Hall was built opposite Pennant House in 1955 as one of the first phases of a wider civic centre.

The Oval Sports Centre was used in the film, Chariots of Fire, to portray the 1924 Colombes Olympic Stadium in Paris.

[27] In March 1942 after a successful ‘Warship Week’ National Savings campaign HMS Sabre (H18) was adopted by the civil community of Bebington, Cheshire, the same month she was detached for escort of the Russian Convoy PQ 13 during its initial stage of passage to Iceland in the Northwest Approaches.